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MOSAIC 


FRIENDSHIP 

LOVE 

HAPPINESS 

NATVRE 

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MOSAIC  ESSAYS 

FRIENDSHIP- LOVE 

HAPPINESS -NATURE  & 

SUCCESS 

Be  glad  of  life  because  it 
gives  you  the  chance  to  love 
and  to  work  and  to  play 
and  to  look  up  at  the  stars. 

Henry  van  Dyke. 
COMPOSED  BY 

PAUL  ELDER 


PAUL  ELDER  AND  COMPANY 
SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NEW  YORK 


Every  year  I  live  I  am  more 
convinced  that  the  waste  of  life  lies 
in  the  love  we  have  not  given,  the 
powers  we  have  not  used,  the  self- 
ish prudence  that  will  risk  nothing, 
and  which,  shirking  fain,  misses 
happiness  as  well.  No  one  ever 
yet  was  the  poorer  in  the  long  run 
for  having  once  in  a  lifetime  "  let 
out  all  the  length  of  all  the  reins." 
Mary  Cbolmondelej. 


MOSAIC  EsiAYS,  Copyright,  1906 
FftiKNDSHiP,  Copyright,  1901 

Lori,  Copyright ,  1905 

HAFNNISS,  Copyright,  1903 

NATURE,  Copyright,  1903 

SUCCESS,  Copyright,  1903 


The  Tomoye  Press 


THE   ESSAYS 


FRIENDSHIP     .........     PACE  i 

So  long  at  we  love  we  urvt  ;  to  Itnf  at  ivt 
art  loved  by  etbtrt  I  would  almott  lay  that  we 
are  inditpentable  ;  and  no  man  it  utelett  while 
be  bat  a  friend. 


LOVE  ............  PAGE  19 

(hvt    no    man    any  tbinf    but  to    love  out 
another,  for  bt   tbat  loveth  another  batb  ful- 

filled the  law. 

J  Paul  to  tbe  Rt 


HAPPINESS  ..........  PACI  37 

In  every  pert  and  corner  tf  emr  life,  19 
lou  oneulf  it  to  b*  fmintr  ;  /•  forget  oneulf 
ii  to  be  bafty. 


NATURE      ..........  PACE  55 


Flower  in  tbt  cran 

/  pluck  you  out  of  tbe  cranniet, 

I  bold  you  bere,  root  and  all,  in  my  band, 

Little  Jioivtr  —  but  IF  I  could  under  ttand 

JPbat  you  are,  root  and  all,  and  all  in  all, 

I  tbould  know  wbat  Gd  and  man  it. 

Ttnmyttm. 

SUCCESS      ..........  PACI  73 

Tbt  truth  wbicb  another  mam  bat  mm 
from  nature  or  from  life  it  not  our  truth  until 
we  have  lived  it.  Only  tbat  becomet  real  or 
helpful  to  any  man  which  bat  cost  tbe  tweat 
of  bit  brow,  tbe  effort  of  bit  brain,  or  the 
anfttith  of  bit  toul.  He  who  would  be  wite 
mutt  daily  earn  bit  witdom. 

David  Starr  Jordan. 


FRIENDSHIP 


//  is  a  name 

Virtue  can  only  answer  to :  couldst 
tbou 

Unite  into  one  all  goodness  what- 
soe'er 

Mortality  can  boast  of,  tbou  sbalt 
find 

The  circle  narrow  y  bounded  to  con- 
tain 

This  swelling  treasure.  Every  good 
admits 

Degrees;  but  this,  being  so  goody  it 
can  not; 

For  he's  no  friend  who's  not  super- 

Skirl?. 


Friendship  is  love  for  another 
because  of  what  that  other  is  in 
himself,  or  for  that  other's  sake, 
and  not  because  of  what  that  other 
is  to  the  loving  one.  .  .  .  Friend- 
ship is  love  with  the  selfish  element 
eliminated.  It  is  an  out-going  and 
an  on-going  affection,  wholly  and 
inherently  disinterested,  and  in  no 
sense  contingent  upon  any  reciprocal 
relation  between  its  giver  and  its 
object,  nor  yet  upon  its  return  or 
recognition.  .  .  .  Friendship,  in 
shorty  is  love  apart  from  love's 
claim,  or  love* s  craving.  .  .  .  This 
is  pure  friendship,  friendship  with- 
out alloy.  This  is  friendship  at  its 
truest  and  best;  and  this  it  is  that 
makes  the  best  and  truest  friend- 
ship so  rare,  so  difficult  of  concep- 
tion, so  liable  to  misconception. 

TrumbulL 


Friendship 


Ah,  friend,  let  us  be  true 

To  one  another  !   For  the  world  which 

seems 

To  lie  before  us  like  a  land  of  dreams, 
So  various,  so  beautiful,  so  new, 
Hath  really  neither  joy,  nor  love,  nor 

light, 
Nor  certitude,  nor  peace,  nor  help  for 

pain; 

And  we  are  here  as  on  a  darkling  plain 
Swept  with  confused  alarms  of  struggle 

and  flight, 
Where  ignorant  armies  clash  by  night. 

—  Matthew  Arnold. 


O  friend,  my  bosom  said, 

Through  thee  alone  the  sky  is  arched, 

Through  thee  the  rose  is  red, 

All  things  through  thee  take  nobler 

form 

And  look  beyond  the  earth, 
And  is  the  mill-round  of  our  faith, 
A  sun-path  in  thy  worth  ! 
Me,  too,  thy  .nobleness  has  taught 
To  master  my  despair; 
The  fountains  of  my  hidden  life 
Are  through  thy  friendship  fair. 

—  •"•*  .timcrson* 


Friendship 


A  friend  may  well  be  reckoned  the 
masterpiece  of  nature.  —  Emerson.  £  £  ^. 
Friendship  is  love  without  either  flowers 
or  veil.— J.  C.  Hare.  £££  Friendship  is 
that  by  which  the  world  is  most  blessed 
and  receives  most  good.  —  Jcremj  Taylor. 
&  &  &  Friendship  is  the  only  point  in 
human  affairs  concerning  the  benefit  of 
which  all,  with  one  voice,  agree.— -Cicero. 
£,  £  £  Friendship  is  the  highest  de- 
gree of  perfection  in  society.  —  Montaigne. 
<|»  <£,  <|»  Friendship  is  a  word  the  very 
sight  of  which  in  print  makes  the  heart 
warm.  —  Augustine  Birrell.  ^,«J,^>  Friend  is 
a  word  of  royal  tone ;  friend  is  a  poem 
all  alone.  —  A  Persian  Poet.  £  <£,  £.  Friend- 
ship divine,  true  happiness  of  heaven, 
sole  motion  of  the  sole  wherein  excess 
is  righteous. — Voltaire.  £  «f>  ^  The  only 
rose  without  thorns  is  friendship. — 
MUe.de  Scuderi.  £  £  £  Reason  is  the 
torch  of  friendship,  judgment  its  guide, 
tenderness  its  aliment.— De  Bonald. 


In  Analysis 


We  can  never  replace  a  friend.  When 
a  man  is  fortunate  enough  to  have  sev- 
eral, he  finds  they  are  all  different.  No 
one  has  a  double  in  friendship. — Schiller. 
^•^•^  We  talk  of  choosing  our 
friends,  but  friends  are  self-elected. 
—  Emerson.  £  £  £  A  friend  you  have  to 
buy  won't  be  worth  what  you  pay  for 

him.  —George  D.  Prentice.   ^  ^  £    You  Can 

not  extort  friendship  with  a  cocked 
pistol. —Lindey  Smith.  ^^.^  There  are 
no  rules  for  friendship.  It  must  be  left 
to  itself.  We  can  not  force  it  any 
more  than  love.  —  Hazlitt.  ^  £  £  To 
contract  ties  of  friendship  with  any  one 
is  to  contract  friendship  with  his  virtue. 
—  Confucius.  £  £  £  True  happiness  con- 
sists not  in  the  multitude  of  friends,  but 
in  their  worth  and  choice.  —  Ben  Jonson. 
^  ^  ^  There  are  plenty  of  acquaint- 
ances in  the  world,  but  very  few  real 

friends.  —  Chinese  Maxim.     £  £  £     People 

who  always  receive  you  with  great  cor- 


Friendship 


diality  rarely  care  for  you.     Your  true 
friends  make  you    a  partaker  of  their 

humors.  —  Manlay  H.  Pike.  ^b  £  £  Actions, 

not  words,  are  the  true  criterion  of  the 

attachment  of    friends.  —  George  Washington. 

^•^•^  Rare  as  true  love  is,  it  is  less 
rare  than  true  friendship.  —  La  Rochefoucauld, 
^.^.^t  Not  even  love  should  rank 
above  true  friendship's  name. — w.  S.  Gilbert. 
Above  our  life  we 
love  a  steadfast  friend.  Constancy 
—  Marlowe.  ^.^.^  True  friendship  be- 
tween man  and  man  is  infinite  and  im- 
mortal. —  Plato.  £  ^.  £  True  friends,  nor 
death,  nor  separating  fate  can  e'er  di- 
vide. —  Lavater.  £.  £  £  A  friend  loveth 
at  all  times,  and  is  born  as  a  brother  for 
adversity. —Solomon.  ^.^.^  Friendship 
that  flows  from  the  heart  can  not  be 
frozen  by  adversity,  as  the  water  that 
flows  from  the  spring  can  not  congeal 

in     winter.  — J.   Fenimore  Cooper.      ^  ^  ^ 

Convey  thy  love   to   thy  friend,    as  an 


Constancy 


arrow  to  the  mark,  to  stick  there;  not 
as  a  ball  against  the  wall  to  rebound 

back  tO  thee.  —  Francis  Quarles.  ^  ^  ^  No- 

ble  friends  are  a  pledge  to  the  noble  of 
God  and  the  future;  true  friends,  nor 
death,  nor  separating  fate  can  divide. 
—  Lavatcr.  £.  £  ^>  Love  is  a  sudden  blaze 
which  soon  decays;  friendship  is  like 
the  sun's  eternal  rays  ;  not  daily  benefits 
exhaust  the  flame,  it  still  is  giving,  and 
still  burns  the  same.  — Gay.  ^.^.^  First 
on  thy  friend  deliberate  with  thyself; 
pause,  ponder,  sift;  not  eager  in  thy 
choice,  nor  jealous  of  the  chosen  ;  fix- 
ing, fix  ;  judge  before  friendship,  then 
confide  till  death.—  Edward  Young.  £  £  £ 
We  were  friends  from  the  first  mo- 
ment. Sincere  attachments  begin  at 

the    beginnings. —Joseph  Jefferson.      ^^^ 

Friends,  though  they  be  as  the  friends 
of  Job,  or  else  death  !— The  Talmud.  £££ 
All  love  which  depends  on  something, 
when  the  thing  ceases,  the  love  ceases  ; 


8  Friendship 

but  such  love  as  does  not  depend  on 
anything,  ceases  not  forever.  —  The  Talmud. 
£  £  £  Forsake  not  an  old  friend,  for 
the  new  is  not  comparable  to  him ;  a 
new  friend  is  as  new  wine ;  when  it  is 
old  thou  shalt  drink  it  with  pleasure. 
—  Proverbs.  £  ^  £  While  I  am  I,  and 
you  are  you,  so  long  as  the  world  con- 
tains us  both,  me  the  loving  and  you  the 
loth,  while  the  one  eludes  must  the  other 

pursue.  —  Robert    Browning.      £  £  £     Old 

books,  old  wine,  old  nankin  blue,  all 
things,  in  short,  to  which  belong  the 
charm,  the  grace  that  Time  makes 
strong — all  these  I  prize,  but  (entrenous} 
old  friends  are  best.  —  Austin  Dobson.  ^.^^ 
"  Entreat  me  not  to  leave  thee,  and  to 
return  from  following  after  thee:  for 
whither  thou  goest,  I  will  go;  and 
where  thou  lodgest,  I  will  lodge.  Thy 
people  shall  be  my  people,  and  thy  God 
my  God.  Where  thou  diest,  will  I  die, 
and  there  will  I  be  buried.  The  Lord 


Constancy 


do  so  to  me,  and  more  also,  if  aught 
but  death  part  thee  and  me."—  Book  of  Ruth. 
^^^  Ointment  and  perfume  rejoice 
the  heart ;  so  doth  the  sweetness  of  a 
man's  friend  that  cometh  of  hearty 
counsel.  Thine  own  friend  and  thy 
father's  friend  forsake  not.  —  Solomon. 
£  ^.  £  Let  the  honor  of  thy  friend  be 
dear  unto  thee  as  thine  own.— The  Talmud. 
Friendship  renders 
ItS  Reward  prosperity  more  bril- 
liant, while  it  lightens  adversity  by  shar- 
ing it  and  making  its  burden  common. 
—  Cicero.  £.£.£  A  friend  shares  my 
sorrow  and  makes  it  but  a  moiety ;  but 
he  swells  my  joy  and  makes  it  double. 
—Jeremy  Taylor.  £  £  £  Under  the  mag- 
netism  of  friendship  the  modest  man 
becomes  bold ;  the  shy,  confident ;  the 
lazy,  active ;  or  the  impetuous,  prudent 

and    peaceful. — Thackeray.  ^.^^  It  is  a 

good  thing  to  be  rich,  and  a  good  thing 
to  be  strong,  but  it  is  a  better  thing  to 


io  Friendship 

be  beloved  of  many  friends.  —Euripides. 
^.^.^  For  there  is  no  man  that  im- 
parteth  his  joys  to  his  friend,  but  he 
joyeth  the  more ;  and  no  man  that  im- 
parteth  his  griefs  to  his  friend,  but  he 
grieveth  the  less.  —  Bacon.  ^  £  £  Of  all 
felicities  the  most  charming  is  that  of 
a  firm  and  gentle  friendship.  It  sweet- 
ens all  our  cares,  dispels  our  sorrows, 
and  counsels  us  in  all  extremities. 

—  Seneca.    ^.  £  £  Ah,  how  good   it  feels 

—  the  hand  of  an  old  friend  !  —  Longfellow. 
^•^•^  He  that  hath  gained  a  friend 
hath  given  hostages  to  fortune. —  Shakespeare. 
&  &  &  The  comfort  of  having  a  friend 
may  be  taken    away,    but    not    that  of 
having  had  one.  —  Seneca.    £  ^  £   You 
may  not  know   my  supreme   happiness 
at  having  one  on  earth  whom  I  can  call 
friend.  — Charles  Lamb.  £  £.  £  How  were 
Friendship  possible  ?  In  mutual  devoted- 
ness  to  the  Good  and  True :  otherwise 
impossible,  except  as  armed  neutrality, 


Its  Reward  n 

or  hollow  commercial  league.  A  man, 
be  the  heavens  ever  praised,  is  sufficient 
for  himself;  yet  were  ten  men,  united 
in  Love,  capable  of  being  and  of  doing 
what  ten  thousand  singly  would  fail  in. 
Infinite  is  the  help  man  can  yield  to  man. 
—  Cariyie.  £  £,  ^  What  need  we  have 
any  friends,  if  we  should  ne'er  have  need 
of  'em  ?  They  were  the  most  needless 
creatures  living,  should  we  ne'er  have  use 
for  'em,  and  would  most  resemble  sweet 
instruments  hung  up  in  cases  that  keep 
their  sounds  to  themselves.  —  Shakespeare. 
^^^  I  would  not  live  without  the 
love  of  my  friends.  —  John  Keats.  ^.^.^ 
When  true  friends  meet  in  adverse  hour, 
'tis  like  a  sunbeam  through  a  shower ; 
a  watery  ray  an  instant  seen,  the  darkly 
closing  clouds  between.  —  Sir  Walter  Scott. 
Let  friendship  creep 

Cautionary   gently  to  a  height. 

if  it  rush  to  it,  it  may  soon  run  itself 

OUt      of     breath.  —  Thomas  Fuller. 


12 


Friendship 


There  are  many  moments  in  friendship, 
as  in  love,  when  silence  is  beyond 
words.  —  Ouida.  £  £  £  Too  late  we 
learn  a  man  must  hold  his  friend  un- 
judged,  accepted,  faultless  to  the  end. 
—John  Boyle  O'Reilly.  £  £  £  Take  heed 
of  thy  friends.  A  faithful  friend  is  a 
strong  defense;  and  he  that  hath  found 
such  a  one  hath  found  a  treasure.  Noth- 
ing doth  countervail  a  faithful  friend, 
and  his  excellency  is  invaluable.  —  Proverbs. 
&  A  4-  We  must  not  expect  our  friend 
to  be  above  humanity.  —  Ouida.  ^  ^  & 
A  friend  whom  you  have  been  gain- 
ing during  your  whole  life,  you  ought 
not  to  be  displeased  with  in  a  moment. 
A  stone  is  many  years  becoming  a  ruby  ; 
take  care  that  you  do  not  destroy  it  in 
an  instant  against  another  stone.— Siadi. 
jfe^-^.  We  must  love  our  friends 
for  their  sakes  rather  than  our  own. 

—  Charlotte  Bronte.     £  ^  £     Friendship     is 

usually  treated  by  the  majority  of  man- 


Cautionary  13 

kind  as  a  tough  and  everlasting  thing 
which  will  survive  all  manner  of  bad 
treatment.  But  this  is  an  exceedingly 
great  and  foolish  error ;  it  may  die  in 
an  hour  of  a  single  unwise  word.  —  Ouida. 
^  ^  ^  The  holy  passion  of  Friend- 
ship is  of  so  sweet  and  steady  and  loyal 
and  enduring  a  nature  that  it  will  last 
through  a  whole  lifetime,  if  not 

asked     to    lend    money.  —  Samuel  L.  Clemen*. 

£  ^  ^  There  is  no  folly  equal  to  that 
of  throwing  away  friendship  in  a  world 
where  friendship  is  so  rare.  —  Edward  Bulwer. 
^  &  &  It  is  more  disgraceful  to  dis- 
trust than  to  be  deceived  by  our  friends. 
—  La  Rochefoucauld.  £  £  £  Thy  friends  thou 
hast  and  their  adoption  tried;  grapple 
them  to  thy  soul  with  hoops  of  steel, 
but  do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  en- 
tertainment of  each  new-hatched,  un- 
fledged Comrade. — Shakespeare.  £.  £  £ 

Who  friendship  with  a  knave  hath  made 
is  judged  a  partner  in  the  trade.— John  Gay, 


14  Friendship 

In  love  women  exceed  the  generality 
of  men,  but  in  friendship  we  have  infin- 
itely the  advant- 

age.  -  La   Bruyerc.  ^»*  **/  /^0/^» 

No  friendship  is  so  cordial  as  that  be- 
tween girls  ;  no  hatred  so  intense  as  that 

of  Woman  for  Woman.  —  Walter  Savage  Landor. 

Love  Him,  and  keep  Him    r^v  •    •    • 
for  thy  Friend,  who,  when, 
all  go  away,  will  not  forsake  thee,  nor  suf- 
fer thee  to  perish  at  the  last.—  Thos.  a  Kempis. 
^  ^  A  Hush,  I  pray  you  !  what  if  that 
friend  happen  to  be  —  God  !  —  Browning- 
So  if  I  live  or  die  to 

In 


serve  my  friend,  'tis  for 
my  love,  —  'tis  for  my  friend  alone,  and 
not  for  any  rate  this  friendship  bears  in 
heaven  or  on  earth.  —  George  Eliot.  ^.^.^ 
If  a  man  should  importune  me  to  give  a 
reason  why  I  loved  my  friend,  I  find  it 
could  not  otherwise  be  expressed  than 
by  the  answer,  "  Because  he  was  he  ; 

because    I    Was    I."  —  Montaigne.     ^.  £  £. 


In  Tribute  /5 

I  am  distressed  for  thee,  my  brother 
Jonathan  :  very  pleasant  hast  thou  been 
unto  me ;  thy  love  to  me  was  wonder- 
ful, passing  the  love  of  women.  —David. 
&  &  &  Ah,  friendship,  stronger  in  thy 
might  than  time  and  space,  as  faith  than 
sight !  rich  festival  with  thy  red  wine 
my  friend  and  I  will  keep,  in  courts 
divine.  —  Helen  Jackson.  £  £  £  W hereof 
the  man,  that  with  me  trod  this  planet, 
was  a  noble  type,  appearing  ere  the 
times  were  ripe,  that  friend  of  mine 

who  lives  with    God.  — Tennyson.   ^.^.^ 

A    friend  can  not 

And  Enemies  be  known  in  pros- 
perity, and  an  enemy  can  not  be  hidden 
in  adversity. —Theophrastus.  ^^.^  He 
who  has  a  thousand  friends  has  not 
a  friend  to  spare,  and  he  who  has  one 
enemy  will  meet  him  everywhere. 

—  Omar  Khayyam.      £    £    £      When      yOU 

make  a  new  friend,  think  of  the  future 
enemy  who  is  already  in  him.— Schopenhauer. 


i6  Friendship 

Friendship  is  to  be  valued  for  what 
there  is  in  it,  not  for  what  can  be  got- 
ten out  of  it.  When  two  people  ap- 
preciate each  other  because  each  has 
found  the  other  convenient  to  have 
around,  they  are  not  friends,  they  are 
simply  acquaintances,  with  a  business 
understanding.  A  true  friend  is  always 
useful  in  the  higher  sense  :  but  we 
should  beware  of  thinking  of  our 
friends  as  brother  members  of  a  mutual 
benefit  association,  with  its  periodical 
demands  and  threats  of  suspension  for 
non-payment  of  dues.  —  Trumbuil. 


Sheik  Schubli,  taken  sick,  was  borne 
one  day  unto  the  Hospital.  A  host 
the  way  behind  him  thronged.  "  Who 
are  you?"  Schubli  cried.  "We  are 
your  friends/'  the  multitude  replied. 
Sheik  Schubli  threw  a  stone  at  them  ; 
they  fled.  "  Come  back,  ye  false  pre- 
tenders !"  then  he  said  ;  "  a  friend  is  one 
who,  ranked  among  his  foes  by  him  he 
loves,  and  stoned,  and  beat  with  blows, 
will  still  remain  as  friendly  as  before, 
and  to  his  friendship  only  add  the  more." 

—  Jtmee.      Translated  by  Algtr* 


In  the  hour  of  distress  and  mis- 
ery the  eye  of  every  mortal  turns 
to  friendship ;  in  tht  hour  of  glad- 
ness and  conviviality ,  what  is  your 
want?  If  is  friendship.  When 
the  heart  overflows  with  gratitude, 
or  with  any  other  sweet  and  sacred 
sentiment,  what  is  the  word  to 
which  it  would  give  utterance? 
A  friend.  „,.  S. 


LOVE 


Love,  indeed,  is  light  from  heaven ; 
A  spark  of  that  immortal  Jire 
With  angels  shared,  by  Allah 

given, 

"To  lift  from  earth  one  low  desire. 
Devotion  wafts  the  mind  above. 
But  heaven  itself  descends  in  love; 
A  feeling  from  the  Godhead  caught, 
'To  wean  from  self  each  sordid 

thought; 
A  ray  of  Him  who  form' d  the 

whole ; 
A  glory  circling  round  the  soul. 

B,r,n. 


'True  loves  the  gift  which  God  has 

given 

'To  man  alone  beneath  the  heaven ; 
It  is  not  fantasy's  hot  fire, 
Whose  wishes ,  soon  as  grant ed,  fly ; 
It  liveth  not  in  fierce  desire, 
With  dead  desire  it  doth  not  die; 
It  is  the  secret  sympathy, 
The  silver  link,  the  silken  tie, 
Which  heart  to  heart,  and  mind  to 

mind, 
In  body  and  in  soul  can  bind. 


Love  21 


Abou-ben-Adhem  ( may  his  tribe  increase  ! ) 
Awoke  one  night  from  a  deep  dream  of  peace, 
And  saw,  within  the  moonlight  in  his  room, 
Making  it  rich,  and  like  a  lily  in  bloom, 
An  angel  writing  in  a  book  of  gold:  — 
Exceeding  peace  had  made  Ben-Adhem  bold, 
And  to  the  presence  in  the  room  he  said, 
"What  writest  thou?"     The  vision  rais'd 

its  head, 

And  with  a  look  made  of  all  sweet  accord, 
Answer'd,  "  The  names  of  those  who  love 

the  Lord." 
"  And  is  mine  one  ? "  said  Abou.    "  Nay, 

not  so," 

Replied  the  angel.     Abou  spoke  more  low, 
But  cheerily  still ;  and  said,  "  I  pray  thee, 

then, 
Write  me  as  one  that  loves  his  fellow  men." 

The  angel  wrote,  and  vanished.     The  next 

night 

It  came  again  with  a  great  wakening  light, 
And  show'd  the  names  whom  love  of  God 

had  bless'd, 

And  lo !  Ben-Adhem's  name  led  all  the  rest. 

—  Leigh  Hunt. 


Love  is  that  childlike  art,  that  clothes  the 

Real 

With  the  Ideal,  its  own  simple  self; 
Not  the  poor  poet's  lifelong  grand  despair 
Forever  seeking  that  he  cannot  find. 

—  Frederick  Tennyaon. 


Analysis 


22  Love 

No  man  can  afford  to  invest  his  being 
in  anything  lower  than  faith,  hope, 
love,  —  these  three,  the  greatest  of 

which  is  love.  —  Henry  Ward  Beccher. 

Love  is  swift,  sincere, 
pious,  pleasant,  gentle, 
strong,  patient,  faithful,  prudent,  long- 
suffering,  manly,  and  never  seeking  her 
own,  for  wheresoever  a  man  seeketh 
his  own;  then  he  falleth  from  love. 

—  Thomas  a  Kempis.    £.  «j>  £  Love  Suffereth 

long,  and  is  kind;  love  envieth  not; 
love  vaunteth  not  itself,  is  not  puffed 
up,  doth  not  behave  itself  unseemly, 
seeketh  not  her  own,  is  not  easily  pro- 
voked, thinketh  no  evil ;  rejoiceth  not 
in  iniquity,  but  rejoiceth  in  the  truth ; 
beareth  all  things,  believeth  all  things, 
hopeth  all  things,  endureth  all  things. 

—  Paul  to  the  Corinthians.  ^.  £  £  Love,  which 

is  the  essence  of  God,  is  not  for  levity, 
but  for  the  total  worth  of  man.  —  Emerson. 
ove  is  not  altogether  a  delirium, 


Analysis  23 

yet  it  has  many  points  in  common 
therewith.  I  call  it  rather  a  discerning 
of  the  infinite  in  the  finite, — of  the 
ideal  made  real.  —  Carlylc.  £££  The 
principle  of  life,  the  element  of  religion, 
the  link  between  the  soul  and  God, — 
love.  —  Lew  Wallace.  £  £  £  Love  is  the 
life  of  the  soul.  It  is  the  harmony  of 

the  Universe.— William  Ellery  Channing.  ^  ^  ^ 

True  love  is  that  which  ennobles  the 
personality,  fortifies  the  heart,  and  sanc- 
tifies the  existence.  —  Amid.  £££  And 
love,  life's  fine  center,  includes  heart  and 

mind.  — Owen  Meredith.   £  ^  £  True  loVC 

is  the  ripe  fruit  of  a  lifetime.  —  Lamartine. 
^  ^  ^  Pure  love  cannot  merely  do  all, 
but  is  all.  —  Richter.  £  £  £  Love  is  the 
river  of  life  in  this  world.  Think  not 
that  ye  know  it  who  stand  at  the  little 
tinkling  rill,  the  first  small  fountain. 
Not  until  you  have  gone  through  the 
rocky  gorges,  and  not  lost  the  stream ; 
not  until  you  have  gone  through  the 


24  Love 

meadow,  and  the  stream  has  widened 
and  deepened  until  fleets  could  ride 
on  its  bosom;  not  until  beyond  the 
meadow  you  have  come  to  the  unfath- 
omable ocean,  and  poured  your  treasures 
into  its  depths, — not  until  then  can  you 

know    what    love     is.  — Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

£L£L&  Love  is  ever  the  beginning  of 
knowledge.  —  Carlyle.  £  ^  £  Love  is  im- 
pulse, no  doubt,  but  true  love  is  impulse 
wisely  directed.— Haweis.  ^  ^  ^  Our  love 
is  inwrought  in  our  enthusiasm  as  eledfai- 
city  is  inwrought  in  the  air,  exalting  its 
power  by  a  subtle  presence.  —  George  Eliot. 
Love  never  faileth ;  but  Supreme 
whether  there  be  proph- 
ecies, they  shall  fail ;  whether  there  be 
tongues,  they  shall  cease  ;  whether  there 
be  knowledge,  it  shall  vanish  away. 
For  we  know  in  part  and  we  prophesy 
in  part.  But  when  that  which  is  perfed: 
is  come,  then  that  which  is  in  part  shall 
be  done  away.  When  I  was  a  child,  I 


Supreme  25 

spake  as  a  child,  I  understood  as  a  child, 
I  thought  as  a  child  :  but  when  I  became 
a  man,  I  put  away  childish  things.  For 
now  we  see  through  a  glass,  darkly ;  but 
then  face  to  face :  now  I  know  in  part ; 
but  then  shall  I  know  even  as  also  I  am 
known.  And  now  abideth  faith,  hope, 
love,  these  three  :  but  the  greatest  of 

these  is  love.  —  Paul  to  the  Corinthians.  ^  ^  ^ 

In  the  sublimest  flights  of  the  soul, 
redtitude  is  never  surmounted,  love  is 
never  outgrown.  —  Emerson,  ^.^.^b  Love 
is  the  eldest  and  noblest  and  might- 
iest of  the  gods,  and  the  chiefest 
author  and  giver  of  virtue  in  life  and 
of  happiness  after  death.  —  Plato.  £  £  ^ 
,~  .  .  For  God  so  loved  the  world, 

Divine    u    i  ..      .    , 

mat  he  gave  his  only  be- 
gotten Son,  that  whosoever  believeth  in 
Him  should  not  perish,  but  have  ever- 
lasting life.— Jesus,  Holy  Writ.  £  £  £  For 

I  am  persuaded  that  neither  death,  nor 
life,  nor  angels,  nor  principalities,  nor 


26  Love 

powers,  nor  things  present,  nor  things 
to  come,  nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any 
other  creature,  shall  be  able  to  separate 
us  from  the  love  of  God,  which  is  in 

Christ  JeSUS,  OUr  Lord.  —  Paul  to  the  Romans. 

^•^fe^  Greater  love  hath  no  man  than 
this,  that  a  man  lay  down  his  life  for 
his  friends.  As  the  Father  hath  loved 
me,  so  have  I  loved  you :  continue 
ye  in  my  love.  —Jesus,  Holy  Writ.  ^  ^  ^b 
There  is  nothing  holier  in  TT 

^  rf    f        *u     *u     Human 

this  liie  or  ours  than  the 
first  consciousness  of  love  —  the  first 
fluttering  of  its  silken  wings  —  the  first 
rising  sound  and  breath  of  that  wind 
which  is  so  soon  to  sweep  through  the 
soul,  to  purify  or  to  destroy.  —  LongfclW. 
ft  &  &•  Love  one  human  being  purely 
and  warmly,  and  you  will  love  alL 
The  heart  in  this  heaven,  like  the  wan- 
dering sun,  sees  nothing,  from  the  dew- 
drop  to  the  ocean,  but  a  mirror  which 
it  warms  and  fills.  —  Richter.  «j>  £  ^,  Let  no 


Human 


man  think  he  is  loved  by  any  man, 
when  he  loves  no  man.  —  Epictetus.  ^  ^  ^ 
To  love  for  the  sake  of  being  loved  is 
human,  but  to  love  for  the  sake  of  lov- 
ing is  angelic.  —  Lamartine.  £,  £  £,  So  long 
as  we  love  we  serve.  —  R.  L.  s.  £  £  £ 
Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thy- 
self.— Jesus,  Holy  Writ.  ^  £  £  Without  dis- 
tinction, without  calculation,  without 
procrastination,  love.  Lavish  it  upon 
the  poor,  where  it  is  very  easy  ;  espe- 
cially upon  the  rich,  who  often  need  it 
most  ;  most  of  all  upon  our  equals, 
where  it  is  very  difficult,  and  for 
whom  perhaps  we  each  do  least  of  all. 

-  Henry  Drummond.   ^b  ^  ^  We  are  all  bom 

for  love.  It  is  the  principle  of  exist- 
ence and  its  only  end.  —  Diiracli.  ^^.^ 
No  cord  or  cable  can  draw  so  forcibly, 
or  bind  so  fast,  as  love  can  do  with 
only  a  single  thread.  —  Lord  Bacon.  ^.  £  £ 
The  consciousness  of  being  loved  softens 
the  keenest  pang,  even  at  the  moment 


28  Love 

of  parting ;  yea,  even  the  eternal  fare- 
well is  robbed  of  half  its  bitterness 
when  uttered  in  accents  that  breathe 
love  to  the  last  sigh. — Addison.  <£££ 
If  a  man  does  not  exercise  his  arm  he 
develops  no  biceps  muscle ;  and  if  a 
man  does  not  exercise  his  soul,  he  ac- 
quires no  muscle  in  his  soul,  no  strength 
of  character,  no  vigor  of  moral  fiber, 
nor  beauty  of  spiritual  growth.  Love  is 
not  a  thing  of  enthusiastic  emotion.  It 
is  a  rich,  strong,  manly,  vigorous  ex- 
pression of  the  whole  round  Christian 
chara&er  —  the  Christlike  nature  in  its 
fullest  development.  And  the  constitu- 
ents of  this  great  character  are  only 
to  be  built  up  by  ceaseless  practice. 

—  Henry    Drummond.  £  £  £  Love  that  has 

nothing  but  beauty  to  keep  it  in  good 
health  is  short  lived,  and  apt  to  have 
ague  fits.  —  Erasmus,  ^>  £  £  There  is  no 
happiness  in  the  world  in  which  love 
does  not  enter;  and  love  is  but  the 


Human  29 

discovery  of  ourselves  in  others,  and  the 
delight  in  the  recognition.  —  Alexander  Smith. 
^^^  It  is  best  to  love  wisely,  no 
doubt  ;  but  to  love  foolishly  is  bet- 
ter than  not  to  be  able  to  love  at  all. 
—Thackeray.  £££  Tis  better  to  have 
loved  and  lost  than  never  to  have 
loved  at  all.  -—  Tennyson.  £  ^.  £  Thy  love 
to  me  was  wonderful,  passing  the 

love  of  Women.  —  David  to  Jonathan.  £  £  £, 

,   Even  He  that  died  for 

Maternal  us  upon  the  ^  in  the 


last  hour,  in  the  unutterable  agony  of 
death,  was  mindful  of  His  mother, 
as  if  to  teach  us  that  this  holy  love 
should  be  our  last  worldly  thought,  — 
the  last  point  of  earth  from  which  the 
soul  should  take  its  flight  for  heaven. 
-  Longfellow.  £  £  £  There  is  an  enduring 
tenderness  in  the  love  of  a  mother  to  a 
son,  that  transcends  all  other  affeftions 
of  the  heart.  It  is  neither  to  be  chilled 
by  selfishness,  nor  daunted  by  danger, 


30  Love 

nor  weakened  by  worthlessness,  nor 
stifled  by  ingratitude.  —  Washington  Irving. 
&  &  &  "It  is  a  wonderful  thing,  a 
mother  ;  other  folks  can  love  you,  but 
only  your  mother  understands.  She 
works  for  you,  looks  after  you,  loves 
you,  forgives  you  anything  you  may 
do,  understands  you,  and  then  the  only 
thing  bad  she  ever  does  to  you  is  to  die 

and  leave  you."  —  Baroness  Von  Hutten.  «j»  ^  ^> 

There  is  no  love  like  the  good  old 
love  —  the  love  that  mother  gave  us. 
—  Eugene  Field.  ^.  ^b  ^  A  mother  never  is 
afraid  of  speaking  angrily  to  any  child, 
since  love,  she  knows,  is  justified 

of   love.  —  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 


And  Jacob  served  seven       ^ 

years  for  Rachel  ;  and 

they  seemed  unto  him  but  a  few   days, 

for  the  love    he  had    to    her.  —  Genesis. 

&  &  &  It  is  confessed  that  love  changed 

often  doth  nothing  ;  nay,  it  is  nothing  : 

for  love  where  it  is   kept   fixed  to   its 


Constancy  31 

first  object,  though  it  burn  not,  yet 
it  warms  and  cherishes,  so  it  needs 
no  transplantation  or  change  of  soul 
to  make  it  fruitful.  —  Suckling.  £  £  £, 
Loving  is  more  than  length  of  days,  or 
the  ruby  lips  and  the  blooming  cheek. 
—  Walter  C.  Smith.  £  £  £  And  love  is  the 
sun  of  life,  yet  e'en  love  compels  the 
life  of  an  ampler  love  which  death  re- 
veals.—C.  w.  Stubbs.  £  ^.  £  Unless  you 
can  swear  for  life  or  death,  oh!  fear 

tO    Call    it    loving.  —  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 

&  &  &  For  time's  long  years  may  sever, 
but  love  that  liveth  ever,  calls  back  the 
early  rapture — lights  again  the  angel 

face.  — C.  F.  Alexander.  £  ^.  £  I  will  love 

thee  to  the  death,  and  out  beyond  into 

the   dream   beyond.  —  Tennyson.  £  £  £ 

,    Eye  hath  not  seen,  nor  ear 

Reward     '          . ,      , 

heard,  neither  have  en- 
tered into  the  heart  of  men,  the  things 
which  God  hath  prepared  for  them  that 

love    Him.  — Paul  to  the  Corinthians. 


32  Love 

Be  perfect,  be  of  good  comfort,  be  of 
one  mind,  live  in  peace;  and  the  God 
of  love  and  peace  shall  be  with  you. 

—  Paul  to  the  Corinthians.    £  £.  £    The  king- 
dom   of  God  is  in  the  realm  of  your 
own    consciousness.     The    law  of  the 
kingdom    is    Love.       Obey    this    law, 
keep  the  commandments  which  grow 
out    of   the    law     of    Love,     and     all 
other  things  shall  be  added  unto  you. 

—  Theodore  F.  Seward.  £  £  £  For  if  ye  love 

them  which  love  you,  what  reward 
have  ye !  —Jesus,  Holj  Writ.  £  £  £  Where- 
fore I  say  unto  thee,  her  sins,  which 
are  many,  are  forgiven;  for  she  loved 
much;  but  to  whom  little  is  forgiven, 
the  same  loveth  little. —Jesus,  Holy  Writ. 
ft  ft  ft  By  love's  delightful  influence 
the  attack  of  ill-humour  is  resisted,  the 
violence  of  our  passions  abated,  the  bit- 
ter cup  of  affliction  sweetened,  all  the 
injuries  of  the  world  alleviated,  and 
the  sweetest  flowers  plentifully  strewed 


Reward  33 

along  the  most   thorny  paths    of   life. 

—Zimmerman.     ^  £  ^.    Whether    love    be 

natural  or  no,  it  contributes  to  the  hap- 
piness of  every  society  into  which  it  is 
introduced.  All  our  pleasures  are  short, 
and  can  only  charm  at  intervals:  love 
is  a  method  of  protradting  our  greatest 
pleasure.  — Goldimith.  £  £  ^>  Nothing  is 
so  fierce  but  love  will  soften,  nothing 
so  sharp-sighted  in  other  matters  but  it 
throws  a  mist  before  the  eyes  on't. 
— L'Eitrangc.  ^  ^  ^  Love  is  better  than 
spectacles  to  make  everything  seem 
great.  —  Philip  Sidney.  £  £  *  Riches  take 
wings,  comforts  vanish,  hope  withers 
away,  but  love  stays  with  us.  Love  is 

God.  —  Lew  Wallace.      *   *   *      With    love 

come  life  and  hope.— John  Sterling.  ^,^^ 
Love  finds  the  need  it  fills.  — George  Eliot. 
^  ^  ^  Perfedt  love  casteth  out  fear. 
—John,  Epistle.  ^.^^  Love  strengthens  and 
ennobles  the  character,  and  gives  nobler 
aim  to  every  adtion  of  life.  —  Jewesbury. 


34  Love 

Love,  —  oh,  chillen,  my  pore  tongue 
can't  tell  you  of  the  beauty  and  good- 
ness o'  the  fairy  Love !  She's  the  mes- 
senger of  a  great  King,  and  spends  her 
whole  time  a-blessin'  folks.  Her  hair 
shines  with  the  gold  o'  the  sun;  her 
eyes  send  out  soft  beams;  her  gown  is 
w'ite,  and  when  she  moves  'tis  as  if 
forget-me-nots  and  violets  was  runnin' 
in  little  streams  among  its  folds.  Ah, 
chillen,  she's  the  blessin'  o'  the  world! 
Her  soft  arms  are  stretched  out  to 
gather  in  and  comfort  every  sorrowin' 
heart.  h  Womant 

Clara  Louise  Burnham. 


A  new  commandment  I  give  unto  you, 
That  ye  love  one  another;  as  I  have 
loved  you,  that  ye  also  love  one  another. 

—  Jesus,  Holy  Writ. 


though  I  speak  with  the  tongues 
of  men  and  of  angels,  and  have 
not  low,  I  am  become  as  sounding 
brass,  or  a  tinkling  cymbal.  And 
though  I  have  the  gift  of  prophecy, 
and  understand  all  mysteries,  and 
all  knowledge;  and  though  I  have 
all  faith,  so  that  I  could  remove 
mountains,  and  have  not  love,  I  am 
nothing.  And  though  I  bestow 
all  my  goods  to  feed  the  poor,  and 
though  I  give  my  body  to  be 
burned,  and  have  not  love,  it  prof- 
itetb  me  nothing. 

Paul  to  tbt  Corinthians. 


HAPPINESS 


best  things  are  nearest: 
breath  in  your  nostrils,  light  in 
your  eyes,  flowers  at  your  feet, 
duties  at  your  hand,  the  path  of 
God  just  before  you.  Then  do  not 
grasp  at  the  stars,  but  do  life's 
plain,  common  work  as  it  comes, 
certain  that  daily  duties  and  daily 
bread  are  the  sweetest  things  of 
lifer 


To  ignore  trifling  annoyances,  to 
avoid  ultra-fastidiousness,  to  con- 
done human  frailties,  "  remember- 
ing whereof  we  are  all  made  "  ;  to 
think  the  East  wind  will  "go 
round  to  the  South,"  to  believe 
that  the  darkest  hour  is  just  before 
dawn" — in  a  word,  "to  make  the 
best  of  things,"  is  to  become  a 
public  benefactor,  without  profes- 
sion of  philanthropy. 

«<C"  (Mrs.  James  Farley  Cwr). 


Happiness  39 

Forenoon  and  afternoon  and  night,  — 

Forenoon, 
And  afternoon,  and  night,  —  Forenoon, 

and  —  what  ! 
The    empty   song    repeats    itself.      No 

more? 
Yea,  that  is  Life  :  make  this  forenoon 

sublime, 
This   afternoon  a   psalm,  this   night   a 

prayer, 
And  Time  is  conquered  and  thy  crown 

is  won.  _  E  R  sui 


And  with  joy  the  stars  perform   their 

shining, 
And   the  sea  its  long   moon-silver'd 

roll; 
For  self-poised  they  live,  nor  pine  with 

noting 
All  the  fever  of  some  differing  soul. 

Bounded     by     themselves,    and     unre- 

gardful 
In  what  state  God's  other  works  may 

be, 
In    their   own    tasks   all    their  powers 

pouring, 
These  attain  the  mighty  life  you  see. 

—  Matthew  Arnold. 


40  Happiness 

There  is  an  idea  abroad  among  moral 
people  that  they  should  make  their 
neighbours  good.  One  person  I  have 
to  make  good:  myself.  But  my  duty 
to  my  neighbour  is  much  more  nearly 
expressed  by  saying  that  I  have  to  make 
him  happy  —  if  I  may.  —  R.  L.  S. 
Happiness  is  that  single 
and  glorious  thing  which 
is  the  very  light  and  sun  of  the  whole 
animated  universe;  and  where  she  is 
not  it  were  better  that  nothing  should 
be.  —  Colton.  ^  ^.  ^.  Happiness  has  no 
limits,  because  God  has  neither  bottom 
nor  bounds,  and  because  happiness  is 
nothing  but  the  conquest  of  God  through 
love.  — Amiel.  £  £,  £  Happiness  never 
lays  its  finger  on  its  pulse.  If  we  at- 
tempt to  steal  a  glimpse  of  its  features 

it     disappears.  —  Alexander    Smith.      £  £  £. 

Happiness  is  not  found  in  self-contem- 
plation, it  is  perceived  only  when  it  is 
reflected  from  another.  — Johnson. 


Analysis  41 

Happiness  lies  in  the  consciousness  we 
have  of  it,  and  by  no  means  in  the  way 
the  future  keeps  its  promises.  —  George  Sand. 
^^.^  Happiness  is  reflective,  like  the 

light  of  heaven.  —  Washington  Irving.  £  £  £, 

Happiness  grows  at  our  own  firesides, 
and  is  not  to  be  picked  in  strangers' 
gardens.  — Douglas  Jerroid.  £  ^  £  Nothing 
is  more  idle  than  to  inquire  after  happi- 
ness, which  nature  has  kindly  placed 
within  our  reach.— Johnson.  ^.^^Rays 
of  happiness,  like  those  of  light,  are 
colorless  when  unbroken.  —  Longfellow. 
^££  A  happy  life  is  not  made  up 
of  negatives.  Exemption  from  one 
thing  is  not  possession  of  another. 
—  Landor.  ^>  ^  ^  Happiness  consists  in 
activity :  such  is  the  constitution  of  our 
nature;  it  is  a  running  stream,  and  not 
a  stagnant  pool.— John  M.  Good.  ^.^.^ 
Happiness  is  a  very  beautiful  thing, — 
the  most  beautiful  and  heavenly  thing 
in  the  world, — but  it  is  a  result,  a 


• 


42  Haf pines, 


spiritual  condition,  and  is  not  prede- 
termined by  a  bank  account  or  by  the 
flattering  incense  of  praise.  —  Lilian  Whiting. 
^k  &>  &>  There  is  work  that  is  work 
and  there  is  play  that  is  play;  there  is 
play  that  is  work  and  work  that  is  play. 
And  in  only  one  of  these  lies  happiness. 
—  Gclett  Burgess.  £  £  £  These  are  only 
hours  that  are  not  wasted — these  hours 
that  absorb  the  Soul  and  fill  it  with 
beauty.  This  is  real  life,  all  else  is  illu- 
sion, or  mere  endurance.  —  Richard 
Happiness  in  this  //f 
world,  when  it 
comes,  comes  incidentally.  Make  it 
the  object  of  pursuit,  and  it  leads  us  a 
wild-goose  chase,  and  is  never  attained. 
Follow  some  other  object,  and  very 
possibly  we  may  find  that  we  have 
caught  happiness  without  dreaming  of 
it;  but  likely  enough  it  is  gone  the 
moment  we  say  to  ourselves,  "  Here  it 
is ! "  like  the  chest  of  gold  that  treasure- 


Its  Attainment  43 


seekers  find.  —  Hawthorne.  ^.^^  There 
is  no  happiness,  then,  but  in  a  virtuous 
and  self-approving  conduct.  Unless 
our  actions  will  bear  the  test  of  our 
sober  judgments  and  reflections  upon 
them,  they  are  not  the  actions,  and, 
consequently,  not  the  happiness,  of  a 
rational  being.  —  Franklin.  £  £  £,  Happi- 
ness pursued  is  never  overtaken,  because 
little  as  we  are,  God's  image  makes  us 
so  large  that  we  cannot  live  within  our- 
selves, nor  even  for  ourselves,  and  be 
satisfied.  It  is  not  good  for  a  man  to 
be  alone,  because,  rightly,  self  is  the 
smallest  part  of  us.  Even  God  found 
it  good  not  to  be  alone,  but  to  create 
objects  for  His  love  and  benevolence. 
—George  w.  Cable.  ^.  £  £  An  aim  in  life 
is  the  only  fortune  worth  the  finding  ; 
and  it  is  not  to  be  found  in  foreign 
lands,  but  in  the  heart  itself.  —  R.  L.  s. 
^t  &  &  An  inspiration  is  a  joy  for  ever, 
a  possession  as  solid  as  a  landed  estate, 


44  Happiness 

a  fortune  which  we  can  never  exhaust 
and  which  gives  us  year  by  year  a  rev- 
enue of  pleasurable  activity.  To  have 
many  of  these  is  to  be  spiritually  rich. 
—  R.  L.  S.  ^.^b  ^  Happiness  is  only  to 
be  found  in  a  recurrence  to  the  prin- 
ciples of  human  nature,  and  these  will 
prompt  very  simple  measures. — Disraeli. 
^  ^  ^  Happiness  is  the  natural  flower 
of  duty.  —  Phillips  Brooks.  £  £.  £  Forti- 
tude, justice,  and  candor,  are  very  neces- 
sary instruments  of  happiness,  but  they 
require  time  and  exertion.  —  Sydney  Smith. 
^  4-  ^  Those  who  seek  for  something 
more  than  happiness  in  this  world  must 
not  complain  if  happiness  is  not  their 
portion. — Froude.  £.  £  £  To  be  a  painter 
does  it  suffice  to  arm  one's  self  with  a 
brush,  or  does  the  purchase  at  great 
cost  of  a  Stradivarius  make  one  a  musi- 
cian ?  No  more,  if  you  had  the  whole 
paraphernalia  of  amusement  in  the 
perfection  of  its  ingenuity,  would  it 


Its  Attainment  45 

advance  you  upon  your  road  to  happi- 
ness. But  with  a  bit  of  crayon  a  great 
artist  makes  an  immortal  sketch.  It 
needs  talent  or  genius  to  paint;  and  to 
amuse  one's  self  the  faculty  of  being 
happy;  whoever  possesses  it  is  amused  at 

Slight  COSt.  — Charles  Wagner.    £  £  £   The 

happiness  or  unhappiness  of  men  de- 
pends no  less  upon  their  dispositions 
than  their  fortunes.  —  La  Rochefoucauld. 
^  ^  ^  Wherever  Life  is  simple  and 
sane  true  pleasure  accompanies  it  as 
fragrance  does  uncultivated  flowers. 

—  Charles  Wagner.     £  £  £     And     to     get 

peace,  if  you  do  want  it,  make  for 
yourself  nests  of  pleasant  thoughts. 
Those  are  nests  on  the  sea,  indeed,  but 
safe  beyond  all  others.  Do  you  know 
what  fairy  palaces  you  may  build  of 
beautiful  thought,  proof  against  all  ad- 
versity ?  Bright  fancies,  satisfied  memo- 
ries, noble  histories,  treasure-houses  of 
precious  and  restful  thoughts,  which 


46  Happiness 

care  cannot  disturb,  nor  pain  make 
gloomy,  nor  poverty  take  away  from 
us — houses  built  without  hands  for 

OUr  SOuls  tO  live  in.— John  Ruskin.    ^1  ^,^b 

Happiness  is  a  condition  attained 
through  worthiness.  To  find  your  life 

yOU    must    lose  it.— Lilian  Whiting.    £  ^  £ 

The  road  to  happiness  is  the  continuous 
effort  to  make  others  happy.  The  chief 
aim  of  life  ought  to  be  usefulness,  not 
happiness ;  but  happiness  always  follows 
usefulness.— Talmage.  £  £  £  No  man 
can  be  happy  without  exercising  the 
virtue  of  a  cheerful  industry  or  activity. 
No  man  can  lay  in  his  claim  to  happi- 
ness, I  mean  the  happiness  that  shall 
last  through  the  fair  run  of  life,  with- 
out chastity,  without  temperance,  with- 
out sobriety,  without  economy,  without 
self-command,  and,  consequently,  with- 
out fortitude;  and,  let  me  add,  without  a 
liberal  and  forgiving  spirit. — John  M.  Good. 
If  a  man  is  unhappy,  this 


Its  Attainment  47 

must  be  his  own  fault;  for  God  made 
all  men  to  be  happy.  —  Epictetus.  ^  ^  ^ 
Unfailing  thoughtfulness  of  others  in 
all  those  trifles  that  make  up  daily  con- 
tact in  daily  life,  sweetness  of  spirit,  the 
exhilaration  of  gladness  and  of  joy,  and 
that  exaltation  of  feeling  which  is  the 

»  inevitable  result  of  mental  peace  and 
loving  thought,  —  these  make  up  the 
World  Beautiful,  in  which  each  one 
may  live  as  in  an  atmosphere  always 
attending  his  presence.  —  Lilian  Whiting. 
&>  &>  &  To  watch  the  corn  grow,  or 
the  blossoms  set;  to  draw  hard  breath 
over  plowshare  or  spade;  to  read,  to 
think,  to  love,  to  pray, — these  are  the 
things  that  make  men  happy.— John  Ruskin. 
&  &  &  He  who  is  virtuous  is  wise;  and 
he  who  is  wise  is  good;  and  he  who 
is  good  is  happy.— Bocthius.  £  £  £ 
T^  There  is  no  duty  we  so  much 

underrate  as  the  duty  of  be- 
ing happy.      By  being  happy,  we  sow 


48  Happiness 

anonymous  benefits  upon  the  world, 
which  remain  unknown  even  to  our- 
selves, or  when  they  are  disclosed,  sur- 
prise nobody  so  much  as  the  benefactor. 
— R.  L.  s.  <£  <£  ^  Let  us  take  issue 
with  despondency  and  break  a  lance 
against  fear  and  rejoice  in  our  day.  Let 
a  cheerful  confidence  in  our  country- 
men, in  our  institutions,  in  our  means 
of  civilization  and  progress,  take  rest 
in  our  hearts  and  live  in  our  families. 

—  «C  "  (Mrs.  James  Farley  Cox).    ^  £  £   The 

responsibility  is  on  each  and  all  of  us 
to  live  on  the  ideal  plane;  to  realize 
in  outward  action,  in  every  deed  and 
word,  those  qualities  which  we  recog- 
nize as  pertaining  to  the  higher  life. 
For  it  is  these  that  produce  the  Spirit- 
ual, and  to  live  this  higher  life  is  to 
live  in  happiness,  even  in  holiness. 
—Lilian  Whiting.  £  £  £  Expediency  is 
man's  wisdom.  Doing  right  is  God's. 

—  Gco.  Meredith.    £  £  £  Like  the  king- 


Duty 


49 


dom  of  heaven,  the  World  Beautiful  is 
within ;  and  it  is  not  only  a  privilege, 
but  an  absolute  duty  so  to  live  that  we 
are  always  in  its  atmosphere.— Lilian  Whiting. 
&>  &-  &>  We  ought  to  be  as  cheerful  as 
we  can,  if  only  because  to  be  happy 
ourselves,  is  a  most  effectual  contribu- 
tion to  the  happiness  of  others.  —  Lubbock. 
^•^•^  Happiness  should  be  regarded 
as  the  normal  condition  of  life;  and 
when  one  is  below  it,  he  should  inquire 
into  the  reason,  and  see  if  it  is  not  a 
result  of  causes  which  can  be  removed 
or  changed.  No  one  has  any  more  right 
to  go  about  unhappy  than  he  has  to 

gO  about  ill-bred.  — Lilian  Whiting.    ^.^^ 

Today  is  your  day  and  mine;  the  only 
day  we  have;  the  day  in  which  we 
play  our  part.  What  our  part  may  sig- 
nify in  the  great  whole  we  may  not 
understand  ;  but  we  are  here  to  play  it, 
and  now  is  our  time.  This  we  know  : 
it  is  a  part  of  action,  not  of  whining. 


go  Happiness 

It  is  a  part  of  love,  not  cynicism.  It 
is  for  us  to  express  love  in  terms  of 
human  helpfulness.  This  we  know, 
for  we  have  learned  from  sad  experi- 
ence that  any  other  source  of  life  leads 

toward  decay  and  Waste.  —  David  Starr  Jordan. 

Mankind  are  always       r,       r>  / 

Its  Rewards 

happy    for     having 

been  happy ;  so  that,  if  you  make  them 
happy  now,  you  make  them  happy 
twenty  years  hence  by  the  memory  of 

it. —  Sydney  Smith.    £  £  ^     GoodneSS  does 

not  more  certainly  make  men  happy 
than  happiness  makes  them  good. 
— Landor.  «£  £  <£  Happiness  does  away 
with  ugliness,  and  even  makes  the 
beauty  of  beauty.  — Amiel.  £  £  £.  We 
are  contented  because  we  are  happy,  and 
not  happy  because  we  are  contented. 
—  Landor.  £  £  «£,  Happiness  is  an  equiva- 
lent for  all  troublesome  things. —  Epictetus. 
&  &  &  If  we  do  our  best ;  if  we  do 
not  magnify  trifling  troubles ;  if  we 


Its  Rewards 


look  resolutely,  I  do  not  say  at  the 
bright  side  of  things,  but  at  things  as 
they  really  are;  if  we  avail  ourselves 
of  the  manifold  blessings  which  sur- 
round us,  we  cannot  but  feel  that  life  is 
indeed  a  glorious  inheritance.  —  Lubbock. 
Pr/l\Jfr  The  day  returns  and  brings 
us  the  petty  round  of  irri- 
tating concerns  and  duties.  Help  us 
to  play  the  man,  help  us  to  perform 
then  with  laughter  and  kind  faces,  let 
cheerfulness  abound  with  industry. 
Give  us  to  go  blithely  on  our  business 
all  this  day,  bring  us  to  our  resting  beds 
weary  and  content  and  dishonoured, 
and  grant  us  in  the  end  the  gift  of 
sleep.  —  R.  L.  S.  ^.^.^  Who  rises  from 
Prayer  a  better  man,  his  Prayer  is  an- 
swered.— Geo.  Meredith.  ^^.^  For  this 
reason  so  many  fall  from  God,  who 
have  attained  to  Him:  that  they  cling 
to  Him  with  their  Weakness,  and 
not  in  their  Strength.  —  Geo.  Meredith. 


Happiness 

Recipe  for  a  Happy  Life 

Three    ounces   are   necessary,    first    of 

patience, 

Then    of  repose   and    peace;  of  con- 
science 

A  pound  entire  is  needful: 
Of  pastimes  of  all  sorts,  too, 
Should  be    gathered  as    much   as   the 

hand  can  hold; 
Of  pleasant  memory  and  of  hope  three 

good  drachms 
There  must  be  at  least.    But  they  should 

moistened  be 
With  a  liquor  made  from  true  pleasures 

which  rejoice  the  heart. 
Then  of  love's  magic  drops  a  few— 
But  use  them  sparingly,  for  they  may 

bring  a  flame 

Which  naught  but  tears  can  drown. 
Grind  the  whole  and  mix  therewith  of 

merriment  an  ounce 
To  even.     Yet  all  this  may  not  bring 

happiness 
Except  in  your  orisons  you  lift  your 

voice 
To  Him  who  holds  the  gift  of  health. 

— Written  by  Margaret  of  Navarre  in  1 500. 


Happy  Thought 

World  is  so  full  of  a  number 
^  °f  ^rigs , 

Pm  sure  we  should  all  be  as  happy 
as  kings. 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 


NATURE 

Nature  never  did  betray 

The  heart  that  loved  her ;  'tis  her 

privilege, 
Through  all  the  years  of  this  our 

life,  to  lead 
From  joy  to  joy :  for  she  can  so 

inform 
The  mind  that  is  within  us,  so 

impress 
With  quietness  and  beauty,  and  so 

feed 
Witb  lofty  thoughts,  that  neither 

evil  tongues, 
Rash  judgments,  nor  the  sneers  of 

selfish  men, 
Nor  greetings  where  no  kindness 

is,  nor  all 
The  dreary  intercourse  of  daily 

ufe> 

Shall  e'er  prevail  against  us,  or 

disturb 
Our  cheerful  faith,  that  all  which 

we  behold 
Is  full  of  blessings, 

Wordmortb. 


Vbere  is  a  pleasure  in  the  path- 
less woods, 

Were  is  a  rapture  on  the  lonely 
shorty 

There  is  society  where  none  in- 
trudes, 

By  the  deep  Sea,  and  music  in  its 
roar : 

I  love  not  Man  tbe  less,  but 
Nature  more, 

From  these  our  interviews,  in 
which  I  steal 

From  all  I  may  be,  or  have  been 
before, 

<To  mingle  with  the  Universe,  and 
fed 

What  I  can  ne'er  express,  yet  can- 

not  all  conceal. 

Byron. 


Nature  57 

Under  the  greenwood  tree 

Who  loves  to  lie  with  me, 
And  tune  his  merry  note 
Unto  the  sweet  bird's  throat  — 
Come  hither,  come  hither,  come  hither: 
Here  shall  he  see 
No  enemy 
But  winter  and  rough  weather. 

Who  doth  ambition  shun 

And  loves  to  live  i'  the  sun, 

Seeking  the  food  he  eats 

And  pleased  with  what  he  gets  — 

Come  hither,  come  hither,  come  hither: 

Here  shall  he  see 

No  enemy 
But  winter  and  rough  weather. 

—  Shakespeare. 

To  him  who  in  the  love  of  Nature  holds 
Communion  with  her  visible  forms,  she 


A  various  language. 

—  Bryant. 


58  Nature 

Climb  the  mountains  and  get  their 
good  tidings.  Nature's  peace  will  flow 
into  you  as  sunshine  flows  into  trees. 
The  winds  will  blow  their  own  fresh- 
ness into  you,  and  the  storms  their 
energy,  while  cares  will  drop  off  like 
autumn  leaves. — John  Muir.  £  «£  «£  Rest- 
ing quietly  under  an  ash  tree,  with  the 
scent  of  flowers,  and  the  odour  ©f  green 
buds  and  leaves,  a  ray  of  sunlight  yonder 
lighting  up  the  lichen  and  the  moss  on 
the  oak  trunk,  a  gentle  air  stirring  in 
the  branches  above,  giving  glimpses  of 
fleecy  clouds  sailing  in  the  ether,  there 
comes  into  the  mind  a  feeling  of  intense 
joy  in  the  simple  fact  of  living.  —  Jefferies. 
&&&  What  happiness  to  fling  down 
the  heavy  chain  of  daily  life  and  escape 
to  the  country,  where  one  can  breathe 
freely  and  taste  the  noble  rapture  of  a  few 
hours'  independence;  where  the  heart 
is  lifted  up  and  the  thoughts  turn  to  con- 
templation; where  one  is  overjoyed 


Peace  59 

at      finding     one's     self — humanity  — 

alone     with      Nature !  —  Maurice    de    Guerin. 

£  £  ^.  All  those  who  love  Nature  she 
loves  in  return,  and  will  richly  reward, 
not  perhaps  with  the  good  things,  as 
they  are  commonly  called,  but  with  the 
best  things,  of  this  world;  not  with 
money  and  titles,  horses  and  carriages, 
but  with  bright  and  happy  thoughts, 
contentment  and  peace  of  mind. — John 
Lubbock.  ^  ^  ^  By  day  or  by  night, 
summer  or  winter,  beneath  trees,  the 
heart  feels  nearer  to  that  depth  of  life 
which  the  far  sky  means.  The  rest  of 
spirit,  found  only  in  beauty,  ideal  and 
pure,  comes  there  because  the  distance 
seems  within  touch  of  thought. — Jcfferies. 
&  ^.  $.  My  garden,  with  its  silence 
and  the  pulses  of  fragrance  that  come 
and  go  on  the  airy  undulations,  affects 
me  like  sweet  music.  Care  stops  at 
the  gates,  and  gazes  at  me  wistfully 
through  the  bars.  Among  my  flowers 


60  Nature 

and    trees   Nature   takes  me  into  her 
own  hands,   and    I    breathe    freely    as 

the    first    man.  — Alexander  Smith.      £  £  £ 

Nature  stretches  out  her 
arms  to  embrace  man, 
only  let  his  thoughts  be  of  equal  great- 
ness. Willingly  does  she  follow  his 
steps  with  the  rose  and  the  violet,  and 
bend  her  lines  of  grandeur  and  grace  to 
the  decoration  of  her  darling  child. 
Only  let  his  thoughts  be  of  equal  scope, 
and  the  frame  will  suit  the  picture. 
—  Emerson.  £  £  £  There  is  a  majesty 
and  mystery  in  Nature,  take  her  as  you 
will.  The  essence  of  poetry  comes 
breathing  to  a  mind  that  feels  from 
every  province  of  her  empire.  —  Carlylc. 
^  ^  &•  What  is  it  we  look  for  in  the 
landscape,  in  sunsets  and  sunrises,  in  the 
sea  and  the  firmament?  What  but  a 
compensation  for  the  cramp  and  pet- 
tiness of  human  performances  ?  We 
bask  in  the  day,  and  the  mind  finds 


Strength  61 

something  as  great  as  itself.  In  Nature, 
all  is  large,  massive  repose.  —  Emerson. 
^  ^  ^  The  truths  of  Nature  are  one 
eternal  change,  one  infinite  variety. 
There  is  no  bush  on  the  face  of  the  globe 
exactly  like  another  bush ;  there  are  no 
two  trees  in  the  forest  whose  boughs 
bend  into  the  same  net-work,  nor  two 
leaves  on  the  same  tree  which  could  not 
be  told  one  from  the  other,  nor  two 
waves  in  the  sea  exactly  alike.  —  Ru*kin. 
Nature,  like  a  loving  mother, 

.  •         i       i    j 

is  ever  trying  to  keep  land  and 
sea,  mountain  and  valley,  each  in  its 
place,  to  hush  the  angry  winds  and 
waves,  balance  the  extremes  of  heat 
and  cold,  of  rain  and  drought,  that 
peace,  harmony  and  beauty  may  reign 

SUpieme. —- Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton.      £  £  £ 

Where  Nature  is  sovereign,  there  is  no 
need  of  austerity  and  self-denial.  —  Froude. 
^  ^  ^  The  love  which  speaks  and 
sings  and  sighs  in  one  part  of  creation 


62  Nature 

is  revealed  in  the  other  half  in  the  form 
of  flowers.  All  this  efflorescence,  with 
its  wealth  of  forms  and  colours  and  per- 
fumes, which  gives  splendour  to  the 
fields,  is  the  expression  of  love,  is  love 
itself,  which  celebrates  its  sweet  myster- 
ies in  the  bosom  of  every  flower.  —  Maurice 
de  Guerin.  £.  £  £  Nature  and  truth  are 
one,  and  immutable,  and  inseparable  as 

beauty    and    love.  —  Mrs.  Jameson. 


On  the  heaths  and    Companionship 
moors,    where    I 

have  so  long  enjoyed  the  wonders  of 
Nature,  I  have  never  been,  I  can  hon- 
estly say,  alone  ;  because  when  man  was 
not  with  me,  I  had  companions  in  every 
bee,  and  flower  and  pebble;  and  never 
idle,  because  I  could  not  pass  a  swamp, 
or  a  tuft  of  heather,  without  finding  in 
it  a  fairy  tale  of  which  I  could  but  de- 
cipher here  and  there  a  line  or  two,  and 
yet  found  them  more  interesting  than 
all  the  books,  save  one,  which  were  ever 


Companionship  63 

written  upon  earth.— Kingsley.  £  £  £, 
There  is  no  solitude  in  Nature.  —  Schiller. 
&>  &>  &  The  tempered  light  of  the 
woods  is  like  a  perpetual  morning,  and 
is  stimulating  and  heroic.  The  an- 
ciently reported  spells  of  these  places 
creep  on  us.  The  stems  of  pines,  hem- 
locks, and  oaks,  almost  gleam  like  iron 
on  the  excited  eye.  The  incommuni- 
cable trees  begin  to  persuade  us  to  live 
with  them,  and  quit  our  life  of  solemn 
trifles.  Here  no  history,  or  church, 
or  state,  is  interpolated  on  the  divine 
sky  and  the  immortal  year.  —  Emerson. 
&  &  &  Those  who  love  Nature  can 
never  be  dull.  They  may  have  other 
temptations ;  but  at  least  they  will  run 
no  risk  of  being  beguiled,  by  ennui, 
idleness,  or  want  of  occupation,  "to  buy 
the  merry  madness  of  an  hour  with  the 
long  penitence  of  after  time/'  The 
love  of  Nature,  again,  helps  us  greatly 
to  keep  ourselves  free  from  those  mean 


64  Nature 

and  petty  cares,  which  interfere  so 
much  with  calm  and  peace  of  mind. 
It  turns  "  every  ordinary  walk  into 
morning  or  evening  sacrifice,"  a] 
brightens  life  until  it  becomes  almoj 
like  a  fairy  talc.  — Johm  Lubbock.  £  ^ 

It  is  a  great  moment  Interpretation 
in  a  man's  experi- 
ence when  he  awakes  to  the  wonder  of 
the  world  about  him,  and  begins  to  see 
it  with  his  own  eyes,  and  to  feel  afresh 
its  subtle  and  penetrating  charm.  From 
that  moment  the  familiar  earth  and  sky 
become  miracles  once  more,  and  his 
spirit  is  hourly  recreated  in  their  pres- 
ence. —  Hamilton  Wright  Mabic.  ^  £  <£  To 

speak  truly,  few  adult  persons  can  see 
Nature.  Most  persons  do  not  see  the 
sun.  At  least  they  have  a  very  super- 
ficial seeing.  The  sun  illuminates  only 
the  eye  of  the  man,  but  shines  into  the 
eye  and  the  heart  of  the  child.  —  Emerson. 
To  see  in  all  mountains  noth- 


Interpretation  65 

ing  but  similar  heaps  of  earth,  in  all 
rocks  nothing  but  similar  concretions 
of  solid  matter,  in  all  trees  nothing  but 
similar  accumulations  of  leaves,  is  no 
sign  of  high  feeling  or  extended 
thought.  —  Ruikin.  £  £  £.  Like  a  great 
poet,  Nature  produces  the  greatest  re- 
sults with  the  simplest  means.  These 
are  simply  a  sun,  flowers,  water  and  love. 
Of  course,  if  the  spectator  be  without 
the  last,  the  whole  will  present  but  a 
pitiful  appearance;  and,  in  that  case, 
the  sun  is  merely  so  many  miles  in  dia- 
meter, the  trees  are  good  for  fuel,  the 
flowers  are  classified  by  stamens,  and 
the  water  is  simply  wet.— -Heine.  £  £  £ 
Man  is  incomprehensible  without 
Nature,  and  Nature  is  incomprehensible 
apart  from  man.  For  the  delicate 
loveliness  of  the  flower  is  as  much  in 
the  human  eye  as  in  its  own  fragile 
petals,  and  the  splendor  of  the  heavens 
as  much  in  the  imagination  that  kindles 


66  Nature 

at  the  touch  of  their  glory  as  in  the  shin- 
ing of    COUntleSS  Worlds.  —  Hamilton    Wright 

Mabie.  ^>  £  £,  We  animate  what  we 
can,  and  we  see  only  what  we  animate. 
Nature  and  books  belong  to  the  eyes 
that  see  them.  It  depends  on  the  mood 
of  the  man,  whether  he  shall  see  the 
sunset  or  the  fine  poem.  There  are  al- 
ways sunsets,  and  there  is  always  genius ; 
but  only  a  few  hours  so  serene  that  we 
can  relish  nature  or  criticism.  —  Emerson. 
When  I  would  beget  4  Backer 
content  and  increase 
confidence  in  the  power  and  wisdom 
and  providence  of  Almighty  God,  I  will 
walk  the  meadows  by  some  gliding 
stream,  and  there  contemplate  the  lilies 
that  take  no  care,  and  those  very  many 
other  little  living  creatures  that  are  not 
only  created,  but  fed  (man  knows  not 
how)  by  the  goodness  of  the  God  of 
Nature,  and  therefore  trust  in  Him. 
—Izaak  Walton.  £  £  £  Every  time  that 


A  Teacher  67 

we  allow  ourselves  to  be  penetrated  by 
Nature,  our  soul  is  opened  to  the  most 
touching  impressions.  Whether  Nature 
smiles  and  adorns  herself  on  her  most 
beautiful  days,  or  whether  she  becomes 
pale,  gray,  cold,  and  rainy,  in  autumn 
and  in  winter,  there  is  something  in 
her  which  moves  not  only  the  surface 
of  the  soul,  but  even  its  inmost  depths, 
and  awakens  a  thousand  memories 
which  to  all  appearances  have  no  con- 
nection with  the  outward  scene,  but 
which  doubtless  hold  communion 
with  the  soul  of  Nature  through  sym- 
pathies Unknown  tO  US.  —  Maurice  de  Gucrin. 

^  ^  ^  Nature  seems  to  have  been 
created  to  inspire  feeling.  —  Thomas  Stan 
King-  &  &  &  Nature  is  the  true  ideal- 
ist. When  she  serves  us  best,  when,  on 
rare  days,  she  speaks  tothe  imagination, 
we  feel  that  the  huge  heaven  and  earth 
are  but  a  web  drawn  around  us,  that  the 
light,  skies  and  mountains  are  but  the 


68  Nature 


painted  vicissitudes  of  the  soul.  —  Emerson. 
^  ^  &•  Mountains  seem  to  have  been 
built  for  the  human  race,  as  at  once 
their  schools  and  cathedrals;  full  of 
treasures  of  illuminated  manuscript  for 
the  scholar,  kindly  in  simple  lessons  for 
the  worker,  quiet  in  pale  cloisters  for 
the  thinker,  glorious  in  holiness  for  the 
worshipper.  They  are  great  cathedrals 
of  the  earth,  with  their  gates  of  rock, 
pavements  of  cloud,  choirs  of  stream 
and  stone,  altars  of  snow,  and  vaults  of 
purple  traversed  by  the  continual  stars. 
—  Ruskin.  «£  £  £  The  stars  awaken  a 
certain  reverence,  because  though  al- 
ways present,  they  are  inaccessible ;  but 
all  natural  objects  make  a  kindred  im- 
pression, when  the  mind  is  open  to 
their  influence.  Nature  never  wears  a 
mean  appearance.  Neither  does  the 
wisest  man  extort  her  secret,  and  lose 
his  curiosity  by  finding  out  all  her  per- 
fection. Nature  never  became  a  toy  to 


A  Teacher 


a  wise  spirit.  The  flowers,  the  animals, 
the  mountains,  reflected  the  wisdom 
of  his  best  hour,  as  much  as  they  had 
delighted  the  simplicity  of  his  child- 
hood. —  Emenon.  £££  Nature  is  hiero- 
glyphic. Each  prominent  fact  in  it  is 
like  a  type  ;  its  final  use  is  to  set  up  one 
letter  of  the  infinite  alphabet,  and  help 
us,  by  its  connections,  to  read  some  state- 
ment or  statute  applicable  to  the  con- 

scious   World.—  Thomai  Starr  King.    ^.^^ 

We  are  shown  that  no  suffering,  no 
self-examination,  however  honest,  how- 
ever stern,  no  searching-out  of  the  heart 
by  its  own  bitterness,  is  enough  to  con- 
vince man  of  his  nothingness  before 
God;  but  that  the  sight  of  God's  creation 
will  do  it.  —  Ru»kin.  ^.  £  £  Nature  never 
hurries:  atom  by  atom,  little  by  little, 
she  achieves  her  work.  The  lesson  one 
learns  in  fishing,  yachting,  hunting  or 
planting  is  the  manners  of  Nature  ;  — 
patience  with  many  delays.  —  Emerson. 


70  Nature 

The  World  is  too  much  with  us;  late 

and  soon, 
Getting  and  spending,  we  lay  waste  our 

powers  ; 

Little  we  see  in  Nature  that  is  ours; 
We  have  given  our  hearts  away,  a  sor- 

did boon!  —Wordsworth. 

£££ 

In  June  'tis  good  to  lie  beneath  a  tree, 
While  the  blithe  season  comforts  every 

sense, 
Steeps  all  the  brain  in  rest,  and  heals 

the  heart, 
Brimming  it  o'er  with  sweetness  un- 

awares, 

Fragrant  and  silent  as  that  rosy  snow 
Wherewith  the  pitying  apple-tree  fills 

up, 
And  tenderly  lines  some  last  year  rob- 

in'8 nest.  -Lowell. 


Sweet  day,  so  cool,  so  calm,  so  bright, 

The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky  ; 

The  dew  shall  weep  thy  fall  to-night; 

For  thou  must  die.  -Herbert. 


*Tbe  year's  at  the  Springy 
And  day's  at  the  Morn ; 
Morning  s  at  seven; 
The  bill-side's  dew-pearled: 
Tbe  lark's  on  the  wing; 
Tbe  snail* s  on  tbe  tborn ; 
God's  in  bis  heaven  — 

right  with  tbe  world! 

Rfhrt  Browning. 


SUCCESS 


O  brother,  we  must  if  possible 
resuscitate  some  soul  and  conscience 
in  us,  exchange  our  dilettantisms 
for  sincerities,  our  dead  hearts  of 
stone  for  living  hearts  of  flesh ! 
Then  shall  we  discern,  not  one 
thing,  but,  in  clearer,  dimmer  se- 
quence, a  whole  endless  host  of  things 
that  can  be  done.  Do  the  first  of 
these :  do  it ;  the  second  will  have 
become  clearer,  doabler;  the  second, 
third,  and  three-thousandth  will 
then  have  begun  to  be  possible 
for  us.  n9MMS  c*r/jtt. 


O  toiling  bands  of  mortals!  O 
unwearied  feet,  traveling  ye  know 
not  whither  !  Soon,  soon,  it  seems 
to  you,  you  must  come  forth  on  some 
conspicuous  hill-top,  and  but  a  little 
way  further^  against  the  setting 
sun,  descry  the  spires  of  El  Do- 
rado. Little  do  ye  know  your  own 
blessedness;  for  to  travel  hope- 
fully is  a  better  thing  than  to 
arrive,  and  the  true  success  is  to 
labor.  Robert  Louis  Stevtnson. 


Success  75 

I  Am  the   Captain 
of  My   Soul. 

Out  of  the  night  that  covers  me, 
Black  as  the  Pit  from  pole  to  pole, 

I  thank  whatever  gods  may  be 
For  my  unconquerable  soul. 

In  the  fell  clutch  of  circumstance 
I  have  not  winced  nor  cried  aloud. 

Under  the  bludgeonings  of  chance 
My  head  is  bloody,  but  unbowed. 

Beyond  this  place  of  wrath  and  tears 
Looms  but  the  horror  of  the  shade, 

And  yet  the  menace  of  the  years 
Finds,  and  shall  find,  me  unafraid. 

It  matters  not  how  straight  the  gate, 
How  charged  with  punishment  the 
scroll, 

I  am  the  master  of  my  fate : 
I  am  the  captain  of  my  soul. 

—  William  Ernest  Henley. 


76  Success 

I  fear  the  popular  notion  of  success 
stands  in  direct  opposition  in  all  points 
to  the  real  and  wholesome  success.  One 
adores  public  opinion,  the  other  private 
opinion ;  one  fame,  the  other  desert ; 
one  feats,  the  other  humility  ;  one  lucre, 
the  other  love ;  one  monopoly,  and  the 
other  hospitality  of  mind.  — •  Emerson. 
?fe  ^  ^  No  one  has  success  until  he  has 
the  abounding  life.  This  is  made  up 
of  the  many-fold  activity  of  energy, 
enthusiasm  and  gladness.  It  is  to  spring 
to  meet  the  day  with  a  thrill  at  being 
alive.  It  is  to  go  forth  to  meet  the 
morning  in  an  ecstasy  of  joy.  It  is  to 
realize  the  oneness  of  humanity  in  true 
spiritual  sympathy.  It  is,  indeed,  that 
which  one  is;  not  that  which  he 
has. — Lilian  Whiting.  ^  ^,  ij*  The  great 
thing  in  the  world  is  not  so  much  where 
we  stand,  as  in  what  direction  we  are 

moving.— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  £  £  £  The 

only  failure  a  man  ought  to  fear  is  failure 


Real  Success  77 

in  cleaving  to  the  purpose  he  sees  to  be 

best.  —  George  Eliot.     ^,  ^  £     SuCCCSS  lies, 

not  in  achieving  what  you  aim  at,  but 
in  aiming  at  what  you  ought  to 
achieve,  and  pressing  forward,  sure  of 
achievement  here,  or  if  not  here,  here- 
after. —  R.  F.  Horton.  £  £  £  To  hold 

one's  work  —  whether  it  be  that  of  sell- 
ing goods  behind  a  counter,  or  building 
a  house,  or  work  in  the  professions, 
the  arts,  or  the  industries,  to  hold  it  as 
that  which  forms  one's  medium  of 
expression,  one's  part  in  the  general 
community,  by  means  of  which  he  con- 
veys with  his  work,  his  good-will,  his 
generous  sympathy,  —  the  entire  sup- 
port, indeed,  of  that  magnetic  love 
which  radiates  from  him  who  has  the 
love  of  God  and  the  love  of  man  in  his 
heart,  —  to  give  thus  always  of  one's 
best  is  the  true  success  in  life.  The 
lingering  idea  that  there  is  caste 
in  work  is  an  unworthy  one.  The 


78  Success 

only  caste  is  in  character.  —  Lilian  Whiting. 
&  £.  &  Great  men  are  the  true  men, 
the  men  in  whom  nature  has  succeeded. 
They  are  not  extraordinary,  they  are  in 
the  true  order.  It  is  the  other  species 
of  men  who  are  not  what  they 

OUght     tO     be.  — Amiel's  Journal.       £  ^    4$*. 

Health,  happiness,  and 
good  rcpute,nay,  even,      Attainment 
in  the  long  run,  prosperity  and  wealth 
arc    promised    to,    are    given    to,    the 
man   who    lives    uprightly    and   keeps 
his     garments     clean     and    his    hands 

busy.  —  Charles  Wagner.       £  £  £       SuCCCSS 

consists  in  close  appliance  to  the  laws 
of  the  world  and,  since  those  laws  are 
intellectual  and  moral,  an  intellectual 
and  moral  obedience.  Political  Econo- 
my is  a  book  wherein  to  read  the 
life  of  man,  and  the  ascendency 
of  laws  over  all  private  and  hostile 
influences.  —  Emerson.  £  £  £  The  talent 
of  success  is  nothing  more  than  doing 


Attainment  79 

what  you  can  do  well ;  and  doing  well 
whatever  you  do,  without  a  thought  of 
fame.  —  Longfellow.  ^  ^  ^  Success  surely 
comes  with  conscience  in  the  long  run, 
other  things  being  equal.  Capacity 
and  fidelity  are  commercially  profitable 

equalities.— Henry     Ward     Bcecher.      ^^.^ 

Success  treads  on  the  heels  of  every 
right  effort ;  and  though  it  is  possible 
to  overestimate  success  to  the  extent 
of  almost  defying  it,  as  is  sometimes 
done,  still  in  any  worthy  pursuit  it  is 
meritorious. —Samuel  Smiles.  ^.^^.  Every 
task  that  we  master  adds  to  our  re- 
serve fund  of  strength  and  spiritual 
force.  Every  task  that  masters  us  de- 
pletes our  spiritual  force  and  decreases 
our  strength  of  character.  —Dorothy  Quigley. 
&  &  &  All  successful  men  have  agreed 
in  one  thing,  —  they  were  causationist. 
They  believed  that  things  went  not  by 
luck,  but  by  law.  Belief  in  compensa- 
tion, or,  that  nothing  is  got  for 


8o  Success 

nothing,  —  characterizes  all  valuable 
minds.  —  Emerson.  ^^.^  It  is  a  great 
presumption  to  ascribe  our  success  to 
our  own  management,  and  not  to  esteem 
ourselves  upon  any  blessing,  rather  as  it 
is  the  bounty  of  heaven,  than  the  acqui- 
sition of  our  own  prudence.  —  Addison. 
^^•^  The  secret  of  many  a  man's 
success  in  the  world  resides  in  his  in- 
sight into  the  moods  of  men,  and  his 
tact  in  dealing  with  them. —-Timothy  Titcomb. 
£  £  &  Success  is  the  child  of  Audac- 
ity .  —  Disraeli.  £  £  £  To  SUCCCed  yOU 

must  not  dissipate  your  precious  force 
in  unwise  sympathy.  Do  not  spill  your 
soul  in  running  hither  and  yon  grieving 
over  the  misfortunes,  the  mistakes,  and 
the  vices  of  others.  The  one  person 
whom  it  is  most  necessary  in  this  world 
to  reform  is  yourself.—  Dorothy  Quigley. 
^•^•^  It  is  well  to  have  visions 
of  a  better  life  than  that  of  every  day, 
but  it  is  the  life  of  every  day  from 


Attainment 


which  elements  of  a  better  life  must 
come.—  Maeterlinck.  £  £  £  Work  as  they 
work,  who  are  ambitious.  Respect  life, 
as  they  respect  it  who  desire  it.  Be 
happy,  as  they  are  happy  who  live  for 
happiness  alone.  —  Hindu  Maxim.  ^^^> 
The  secret  of  success  still  lies  in  the 
same  old  word,  "drudgery."  For 
drudgery  is  the  doing  of  one  thing,  one 
thing,  one  thing,  long  after  it  ceases  to 
be  amusing  ;  and  it  is  this  "  one  thing  I 
do  "  that  gathers  me  together  from  my 
chaos,  that  concentrates  me  from  possi- 
bilities to  powers.  That  whole  long 
string  of  habits,  —  attention,  method, 
patience,  self-control,  and  the  others,  — 
can  be  summed  up  in  the  word  "  con- 
centration." "  One  thing  I  do,"  said 
Paul  ;  and,  apart  from  what  his  one 
thing  was,  in  that  phrase  he  gave  the 
watchword  of  salvation.  —  w.  C.  Gannett. 
^•^•^  The  essentials  of  success,  on 
the  inner  side,  are  a  high  ideal,  self- 


82  Success 

knowledge,  self-control,  and  self-culti- 
vation ;  and,  on  the  outer,  self-realization, 
tempered  by  ethical  recognition  of 

Society.  —  Horatio  W.  Dresser.    ^.^^.    The 

clinching  of  good  purposes  with  right 
actions  is  what  makes  the  man.  This 
higher  heredity  does  not  come  from 
one's  father  or  mother,  but  is  the  work 

of  the  man  On  himself. —David  Starr  Jordan. 

£>  &  ?ft  The  only  road  to  advancement 
is  to  do  your  work  so  well  that  you  are 
always  ahead  of  the  demands  of  your 
position.  Our  employers  do  not  decide 
whether  we  shall  stay  where  we  are  or 
go  on  and  up ;  we  decide  that  matter 
ourselves.  Success  or  failure  are  not 
chosen  for  us ;  we  choose  them  for  our- 
selves.—  Hamilton  Wright  Mabie.  £  «j>  £*. 

The  successful  man  takes  plenty  of  time 
for  thought.  He  carefully  looks  the 
ground  over,  searches  for  weak  and 
strong  points,  then  adjusts  himself  to 
the  needed  conditions.— Dresser. 


Attainment  83 

You  will  succeed  best  when  you  put 
the  restless,  anxious  side  of  affairs  out 
of  mind,  and  allow  the  restful  side  to 

live      in       your      thoughts.  —  Margaret  Stowc. 

^^•^  Every  success  in  life  comes 
from  sympathy  and  co-operation  and 

love. — Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler.    ^  £  £      There 

is  but  one  good  fortune  to  the  earnest 
man.  This  is  opportunity ;  and  sooner 
or  later,  opportunity  will  come  to  him 

who  Can  make  USe  of  it.  — David  Starr  Jordan. 

Self-Confidence     Self'trust  is  ther 

first    secret    of 

success,  the  belief  that,  if  you  arc  here, 
the  authorities  of  the  universe  put  you 
here,  and  for  cause,  or  with  some  task 
strictly  appointed  you  in  your  constitu- 
tion, and  so  long  as  you  work  at  that 
you  are  well  and  successful.  —  Emerson. 
^•^•^  Properly  directed  effort  gene- 
rates energy.  Energy  is  life,  life  is  the 
manifestation  of  the  spirit.  Give  your 
spirit  room  to  express  itself.  Use  the 


84  Success 

forces  within  you  intelligently,  fear- 
lessly, joyously,  triumphantly,  persistent- 
ly, and  yOU  will  SUCCeed. —Dorothy  Quigley. 

&>  &>  &>  Self-distrust  is  the  cause  of 
most  of  our  failures.  In  the  assurance 
of  strength  there  is  strength,  and 
they  are  weakest,  however  strong,  who 
have  no  faith  in  themselves,  or  their 
powers.— Boric.  £^>^.  To  confide  in 
one's  self,  and  be  something  of  worth 

and  value.  —  Michael  Angelo.  ^  ^  ^  SuCCCSS 

or  failure  in  any  line  is  dependent  upon 
the  faith  of  the  thinker  in  his  power  to 
accomplish  the  work  before  him.  The 
positive  character  that  determines  to 
attain  the  thing  desired  must  approach 
more  nearly  the  goal  than  the  vacillat- 
ing, hesitating  thinker  who  fears 

failure.— Dorothy  Quigley.      £  £  £      Be 

what  Nature  intended  you  for  and  you 

will  SUCCeed.  — Sydney  Smith.  £  £.  £,  The 

proper  kind  of  self-trust  begets  self- 
assertion,  and  self-assertion  is  one  of 


Self-Confidence  85 

the  most  potent  elements  of  success. 
That  is  the  reason  so  many  of  the  so- 
called  bad,  selfish,  disagreeable  people 
in  life  succeed.  They  assert  them- 
selves.—Dorothy  Quigley.  £  £  £  New, 
daring,  and  inspiring  ideas  are  engen- 
dered only  in  a  clear  head  over  a  glow- 
ing heart.  —  F.  Jacobs.  £  ^.  £  Who  ever 
wishes  to  accomplish  anything  in  any 
career  of  life,  must  first  of  all  be  faith- 
ful to  his  own  nature.  — Alma  Tadema. 

&  ^.  &  Why  should  we  call  ourselves 
men,  unless  it  be  to  succeed  in  every- 
thing, everywhere  ?  Say  of  nothing, 
"  This  is  beneath  me,"  nor  feel  that  any- 
thing is  beyond  your  powers.  Nothing 
is  impossible  to  the  man  who  can 
will.  — Mirabeau.  £££  Try  thyself  un- 
weariedly  till  thou  findest  the  highest 
thing  thou  art  capable  of  doing,  facul- 
ties and  outward  circumstances  being 
both  duly  considered;  and  then  do 
/'/.—  J.  Smart  Mill.  ^^^  He  is  great  who 


86  Success 

is  what  he  is  from  nature,  and  who 
never  reminds  us  of  others.  —  Emerson. 
Experience  shows  _ 

,  .   ,       Determination 

that  success  is  due 

less  to  ability  than  to  zeal.  The  win- 
ner is  he  who  gives  himself  to  his  work, 

body    and     SOUI.  —  Charles  Burton.    £  £  ^b 

To  wish  is  of  slight  moment;  thou 
oughtest  to  desire  with  earnestness  to 
be  successful. —  Ovid.  £  «£  «j>  It  is  true 
there  is  much  to  be  done,  and  perhaps 
you  are  weak-handed;  but  stick  to  it 
steadily  and  you  will  see  great  effects, 
for  "constant  dropping  wears  away 
stones;  and  by  diligence  and  patience 
the  mouse  ate  in  two  the  cable  ;  and  little 

Strokes  fell  great    Oaks/'  —  Benjamin  Franklin. 

^  ^  ^  Good  luck  is  another  name 
for  tenacity  of  purpose.  — Emerson.  £££ 
The  more  powerful  the  obstacles,  the 
more  glory  we  have  in  overcoming 

it.  —  Moliere.    £  £  £    A     StrenUOUS    SOul 

hates  cheap  successes.  —  Emerson. 


Determination  $7 

In  every  walk  in  life,  strength  comes 
from  effort.  It  is  the  habit  of  self- 
denial  which  gives  the  advantage  to  men 
we  call  self-made.  He  is  often  very 
poorly  put  together.  His  education  is 
incomplete ;  his  manners  may  be  un- 
couth. His  prejudices  are  often  strong. 
He  may  worship  himself  and  his  own 
oddities.  But  if  he  is  successful  in  any 
way  in  life,  he  has  learned  to  resist. 
He  has  learned  the  value  of  money, 
and  he  has  learned  how  to  refuse  to 
spend  it.  He  has  learned  the  value  of 
time,  and  how  to  convert  it  into  money, 
and  he  has  learned  to  resist  all  tempta- 
tions to  throw  cither  money  or  time 
away.  He  has  learned  to  say  NO.  To 
say  NO  at  the  right  time,  and  then  to 
stand  by  it,  is  the  first  element  of  suc- 
cess. —  Dtvid  Starr  Jordan.  £  £  £  SuCCCSS 

in  life  is  a  matter  not  so  much  of  talent 
or  opportunity  as  of  concentration 
and  perseverance. —Charles  w.  Wcndte. 


88  Success 

Attend  carefully  to  the  details  of  your 
business. 

Be  prompt  in  all  things. 

Consider  well,  then  decide  positively. 

Dare  to  do  right ;  fear  to  do  wrong. 

Endure  trials  patiently. 

Fight  life's  battles  bravely,  manfully. 

Go  not  into  the  society   of  the  vicious. 

Hold  integrity  sacred. 

Injure  not  another's  reputation  or  busi- 
ness. 

Join  hands  only  with  the  virtuous. 

Keep  your  mind  from  evil  thoughts. 

Lie  not  for  any  consideration. 

Make  few  acquaintances. 

Never  try  to  appear  what  you  are  not. 

Observe  good  manners. 

Pay  your  debts  promptly. 

Question  not  the  veracity  of  a  friend. 

Respect  the  counsel  of  your  parents. 

Sacrifice  money  rather  than  principle. 

Touch  not,  taste  not,  haadle  not  in- 
toxicating drinks. 

Use  your  leisure  time  for  improvement. 

'Xtend  to  every  one  a  kindly  salutation. 

Yield  not  to  discouragement. 

Zealously  labor  for  the  right,  and  suc- 
cess is  certain. 

—  Baron  Rothschild's  Maxims. 


I  judge  it  better,  indeed, 

To  seek  in  life,  as  now  I  know  I 
sought, 

Some  fair,  impossible  love,  which 
slays  our  life; 

Some  fair  Ideal,  raised  too  high 
for  man; 

And  failing,  to  grow  mad,  and 
cease  to  be, 

Than  to  decline,  as  they  do  who 
have  found 

Broad-paunched  content,  and  weal, 
and  happiness; 

And  so  an  end.     For  one  day,  as 
I  know, 

The  high  aim  unfulfilled  fulfils  it- 
self; 

The  deep,  unsatisfied  thirst  is  sat- 
isfied. 

Lewis  Mtrru. 


HERE  ENDETH  THE  MOSAIC  ESSAYS 
OF  FRIENDSHIP,  LOVE,  HAPPINESS, 
NATURE,  fcf  SUCCESS.  COMPOSED 
BY  PAUL  ELDER,  WITH  DECORA- 
TIONS FOR  TITLE  PAGE  fef  COVER 
BY  ROBERT  WILSON  HYDE.  PUB- 
LISHED BY  PAUL  ELDER  &T  COMPANY 
SAN  FRANCISCO  tf  NEW  YORK, 
&T  PRINTED  FOR  THEM  BY  THE 
TOMOYE  PRESS,  OCTOBER,  MCMVI. 


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